The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands . Fig. 17. View on the Potaro River looking up stream at the point where the first glimpse of the Kaieteur Falls is caught. After breakfast, at the edge of the savannah, Mr. Shideler and I, with Williamand another Indian, walked to the edge of the precipice and to the fall, while therest of the Indians went on to pitch the camp and get the boats of the upper Potaroready. The scenery about the fall is unique. Looking down the strea
The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands . Fig. 17. View on the Potaro River looking up stream at the point where the first glimpse of the Kaieteur Falls is caught. After breakfast, at the edge of the savannah, Mr. Shideler and I, with Williamand another Indian, walked to the edge of the precipice and to the fall, while therest of the Indians went on to pitch the camp and get the boats of the upper Potaroready. The scenery about the fall is unique. Looking down the stream one sees 50 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM the U-shaped gorge cut out by the Potaro in the level plateau. The Potaro isvisible from time to time as it crosses from one side of the valley to the other. Thebest view of the fall itself can be had by climbing down on a ledge of rock at theedge of the precipice. I not only climbed down, but, all excitement with the fever,. Fig. 18. Exposed left side of the bed of the Potaro River at Tukeit in the dry season. the steep climb, and the superb view, set up my camera on the ledge and tooknumerous photographs. I confess to feeling distinctly dizzy when I placed myhead under the focusing cloth, knowing that if something should happen I and thecamera would land on the rocks a thousand or so feet below. Not that I couldfind a finer place to die, but I was reluctant to start to kingdom come on such aheavy down grade. After making about thirty exposures under varying conditions, we went tothe camp in the bush some distance up the river. The fall is caused by an exces-sively hard conglomerate which overlies a softer sandstone. The savannah abovethe fall is in large part this naked conglomerate. In places bushes grow fromcracks in the rocks. Many bunches of grass, or flowers grow from a little accumula-tion of soil that can be kicked from place to place along the surface of the afternoon of the 18th and par
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